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By Jeff Reynolds
A bill before Congress would roll back regulations requiring banks in other countries to report to the Internal Revenue Service on U.S. citizens’ assets held abroad.
A bill before Congress would roll back regulations requiring banks in other...

BY NIGEL GREEN
August 2, 2017
One of the most commonly used (and abused) buzzwords in public life is “transparency.” Transparency is good. Everybody’s for it. The problem is the different, even contradictory, meanings the word is given.
“It is...

Campaigners lobbying for the repeal of FATCA in the USA are demanding to know why President Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington are ignoring their call to axe the controversial tax law.
Around 24 separate lobby groups have come together...

In this video Claudine and Anthony examine key testimony of Professor Elise Bean, the claimed architect of FATCA and the witness for House Democrats who are fighting for a full repeal of this disastrous law.
IRSMedic, the Law Offices of...

I assume this sentence should read: ‘The United States will move AWAY from its present “worldwide” tax system—where Uncle Sam insists on the ability to tax American companies and individuals, regardless of where they work or are located.’
It’s significant...

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nigel Green's Campaign to Repeal FATCA and the Center for Freedom and Prosperity led a coalition of 21 other groups, including Americans for Tax Reform and the National Taxpayers Union, calling on Congress to...

This week the Senate version of the tax reform bill will come to the Senate floor. The Campaign to Repeal FATCA has learned that Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) plans to offer as a floor amendment his bill S. 869...

William Byrnes (Texas A&M University Law)
I was recently asked to analyze the often quoted figure of $150 billion lost by the U.S. Treasury to foreign non-tax compliance by U.S. taxpayers. My transcribed remarks are below. Also, see William Byrnes’...